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Transmitted by the chief of staff of the National Gendarmerie to the colonel, chief of general staff of the Togolese armed forces, for a decision: "... to inform you that, with regard to the punishment imposed on auxiliary gendarme Kao Bagna, service No. 1839, serving with the Foxtrot platoon of the National Gendarmerie in Lomé, the chief of staff of the National Gendarmerie has increased the penalty to 30 days' imprisonment, with a request that a higher penalty be imposed and that the person concerned be brought before a disciplinary panel with a view to suspending him for six months without pay."
"... comunicarle que, en relación con la sanción impuesta al gendarme adjunto Bagna Kao, matrícula 1839, en servicio en la unidad fox-trot de la gendarmería nacional en Lomé, el Jefe del Estado Mayor de la Gendarmería Nacional convierte la sanción en 30 días de calabozo con petición de aumento y comparecencia del interesado ante un consejo disciplinario para su exclusión temporal durante seis meses sin sueldo."
Victor Sylvester was still conducting foxtrots on the wireless.
Víctor Sylvester seguía emitiendo fox-trots por la radio.
“Work on that foxtrot,” she eventually said, and gave him a wink.
Practica el fox-trot —le dijo finalmente, y le guiñó un ojo.
The gramophone suddenly burst into life with a quick foxtrot.
De repente, el gramófono cobró vida con un rápido fox trot, y Barbara comenzó a bailar sola.
Barbara, beginning a tentative foxtrot alone, looked at her cousin Richard as though considering whether to invite him to dance.
Barbara, que todavía bailaba sola al son del fox trot, miró a su primo como si quisiera invitarlo a bailar.
Their posture is appalling as a rule, and judging from their songs they snivel and wallow,grin and bear it having gone the way of the foxtrot.
Por lo general, su pose resulta atroz y, a juzgar por las canciones que berrean y bailan, ponen cara de circunstancias y lo soportan como si vivieran en la época del fox trot.
The music hung in the air like floating ribbons as the pair moved in a shuffling foxtrot, with Alex being mindful of Emma’s weaker left leg.
La música flotaba en el aire mientras la pareja bailaba un fox-trot arrastrando los pies y Alex tenía todo el cuidado con la pierna izquierda de Emma, más débil.
Couples were dancing the foxtrot while other groups of passengers moved back and forth on the dance floor, attended to by a small army of waiters and maids.
Las parejas bailaban un fox-trot en medio de la pista mientras grupos de pasajeros se movían de aquí para allá atendidos por un pequeño ejército de camareros y asistentes.
He played cards with Emma, grinning at her flagrant cheating, and he had even put on music and danced with her while she criticized his foxtrot technique.
Jugaba a cartas con ella, sonriendo porque charlaba por los codos. Incluso ponía música y bailaban los dos, y Emma criticaba su modo de bailar el fox-trot.
There were dozens of footprints in the powder, his mother’s bare feet whirling within the clear images of heavy boots, like the patterns of complicated dances set out in his parents’ foxtrot and tango manuals.
En el polvo blanco había docenas de huellas de pies, los pies desnudos de su madre girando entre claras imágenes de unas pesadas botas, como los dibujos de complicados pasos de baile en los manuales de tango y fox-trot de sus padres.
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